The agency had until Thursday, under a 2019 court order, to review more than 500 companies’ applications for 6.5 million e-cigarette products—either to let new products on store shelves or, as with many products including Juul’s, to keep selling them, NPRIt has completed its reviews for 93% of those products, acting commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock and Mitch Zeller, head of its Center for Tobacco Products, said in a statement Thursday.
The agency has ordered 4.5 million products to be removed because their applications were incomplete, while 946,000 products were either blocked or ordered removed because their potential benefit to help adults switch from regular cigarettes was outweighed by their potential to hook teenagers. Despite shutting down millions of products, the FDA did not decide on applications from the most popular e-cigarette brands—Juul, Vuse and NJOY—